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The author undertook a comparative survey of ancient Near Eastern cultures, in which he detected evidence from iconography and literature which seemed to point to the continued survival, into early historical times, of hominid ape-men similar to the dwarfish Neanderthal men known from fossil remains in Europe, or the Pithecanthropus ( now called Homo erectus ) from Java Furthermore, Lanz systematically analysed the Old Testament in the light of his hypothesis, identifying and interpreting coded references to the ape-men which substantiated an illicit practice of interbreeding between humans and " lower " species in antiquity.
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author and undertook
Fleming undertook some minor experiments with the format, including a story written as an homage to an author he greatly admired, W. Somerset Maugham.
The Physiognomia ( which also exists in an Italian translation ) and the Super auctorem spherae expressly state that the author undertook the works at the request of the Emperor Frederick.
In 1977-8 Hamilton undertook a series of collaborations with the artist Dieter Roth that also blurred the definitions of the artist as sole author of their work.
On the other hand, there is no reason for rejecting the almost contemporary testimony of the first part of the Free folio that the author of the Heliand had won renown as a poet before he undertook his great task at the emperor's command.
Klein is chiefly known as the author of the elaborate though uncompleted Geschichte des Dramas ( 1865 – 1876 ), in which he undertook to record the history of the drama from the earliest times.
He undertook to author the entire razo corpus and a great many of the vidas.
Spearheaded by the author Victor Hugo ( 1802 – 1885 ) and a few other intellectuals, a preservation committee called la Société des Amis des Arènes undertook to save the archaeological treasure.
author and comparative
It has two main features on which its distinction as a major contribution to Avicennan studies may be said to rest: the first is its clarity and readability ; the second is the comparative approach adopted by the author [...].
Leah Goldberg (; May 29, 1911, Königsberg – January 15, 1970, Jerusalem ) was a prolific Hebrew-language poet, author, playwright, literary translator, and comparative literary researcher.
* Karen Armstrong, FRSL — author on comparative religion
He became a professor of comparative literature at Yale University, an author, and master of Ezra Stiles College at Yale, a post to which he was appointed by his predecessor as Yale president, Kingman Brewster, Jr .. Giamatti taught briefly at Princeton but spent most of his academic life at Yale.
He also leads an intramural research program, including groups led by Stephen Altschul ( another BLAST co-author ), David Landsman, and Eugene Koonin ( a prolific author on comparative genomics ).
* 1965 – Ben Kerkvliet, author and educator in the fields of comparative politics, Southeast Asia and Asian studies.
He was the author also of various papers on zoology, comparative anatomy and palaeontology.
The author utilizes a comparative approach to explaining Unix by contrasting it to other operating systems including desktop-oriented ones such as Microsoft Windows and Mac OS to ones with research roots such as EROS and Plan 9 from Bell Labs.
Pritscher ( 2001: p. 16 ) attributes a salient view on nondual realization to Loy ( b. 1947 ), an author of a work on comparative philosophy of nondual theologies i. e. Loy ( 1988 ): " According to David Loy, when you realize that the nature of your mind and the niverse are nondual, you are enlightened.
Hargrave Jennings ( 1817-1890 ) was a British Freemason, Rosicrucian, author on occultism and esotericism, and amateur student of comparative religion.
Paul Carus, Ph. D. ( 18 July 1852 – 11 February 1919 ) was a German-American author, editor, a student of comparative religion and philosopher.
The comparative religion author Karen Armstrong reviewed Boyer's thesis.
This story has been lauded by comparative literary critics, being compared even to famous Japanese short story author Akutagawa Ryunosuke.
He published many works on constitutional and comparative law, of which the following may be mentioned: Histoire du droit constitiitionnel en Europe pendant lemoyen age ( 1831 ); Introduction historique au cows de legislation penale comparee ( 1841 ); he was the author of a volume of poetry Les enfantines ( 1845 ).
* Max Mueller, German orientalist, author of works on comparative religion and Indo-Aryan languages
Contributors include Asatru Folk Assembly founder Stephen McNallen, Nouvelle Droite leader Alain de Benoist, an interview with noted French comparative philologist Georges Dumézil, British musicologist and translator Joscelyn Godwin, modern Germanic mysticist Nigel Pennick and scholar Stephen Flowers, besides translations of texts by " Traditionalist " author and occultist Julius Evola and völkisch poet and musician Hermann Löns.
In Pokorny's comparative dictionary on Indo-European languages, the author considers Yazata -, yaz -, yasna, yájati, yajñá, ἅγιος hagios to all be derivatives of a Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ) root i ̪ agʲ-( i ̪ ag ´-) " religiös verehren " (" religiously venerate ").
Wildavsky was a prolific author, writing or co-writing thirty-nine books and numerous journal articles, including important works on the budgetary process, policy analysis, political culture, foreign affairs, public administration, and comparative government.
They are a rich store for comparative linguistics, as their diction is purely the popular tongue, bespeaking the poor education of author and audience.
He is the author or editor of 34 books and numerous articles on topics such as emigration, famine, identity, Scottish transatlantic commercial links, urban history, the economic history of Scotland, Empire, the Scottish Highlands, the Irish in Scotland, sectarianism, stability and protest in the 18th century nation, Scottish elites, the Anglo-Scottish Union, rural social history, the global impact of the Scottish people and comparative Irish and Scottish relationships.
author and survey
George Barna, a conservative Christian author and researcher, conducted a survey in the United States in 2009 that found gay and lesbian people having a Christian affiliation were more numerous than had been presumed.
" Or, as the author of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article noted, " To the topographer, as to the genealogist, its evidence is of primary importance, as it not only contains the earliest survey of each township or manor, but affords, in the majority of cases, a clue to its subsequent descent.
The author cites a recent survey by Obstetrics-Gynecology Clinic at Duke Medical Center in North Carolina, according to which one quarter of patients were clay-eaters.
In a 2004 survey designed by Noel Bruton ( author of " How to Manage the IT Helpdesk " and " Managing the IT Services Process "), organisations adopting ITIL were asked to relate their actual experiences in having implemented ITIL.
* William Camden, author of Britannia, author of topographical and historical survey of all of Great Britain and Ireland, first published in 1586.
In 1960, Priestley published Literature and Western Man, a 500-page survey of Western literature in all its genres, including Russia and the United States but excluding Asia, from the second half of the 15th century to the present ( the last author discussed is Thomas Wolfe ).
William Buhlman, an author on the subject, has conducted an informal but informative online survey as well.
* Terry Deary was voted the fifth most popular living children ’ s author in a 2005 Guardian survey.
Muthesius was the author of the exhaustive three-volume " The English House " of 1905, a survey of the practical lessons of the English Arts and Crafts movement.
The author of some twenty books, Heilbroner was best known for The Worldly Philosophers ( 1953 ), a survey of the lives and contributions of famous economists, notably Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and John Maynard Keynes.
By examining survey results from the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union, the author demonstrates that liberalism in that region bears a stronger resemblance to 19th-century liberal nationalism than to the sort of universalist, Wilsonian liberalism described by democratic peace theorists, and that, as a result, liberals in the region are more, not less, aggressive than non-liberals.
According to the lead author of the study, a national survey found that 25 % of U. S. women had phthalate levels similar to the levels that were found to be associated with sexual abnormalities.
According to Williams and later writers influenced by his work — such as Walter LaFeber, author of the popular survey text America, Russia, and the Cold War ( recently updated in 2002 )— U. S. policymakers shared an overarching concern with maintaining capitalism domestically.
The author of a survey of prostitution in Havana devoted a whole chapter to the iniquities of dancing, and the danzón in particular.
He did much useful survey work, and was the author of the code using signal flags adopted by the admiralty in 1803 and used for many years.
According to the same author, a survey about race, conducted in the town of Rio de Contas, Bahia ( total population about 14, 000, 58 % of whom White ), replaced the word " pardo " by " moreno ".
Additionally, he is the Contributing Editor of the Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America, a Contributing Advisor to the International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, contributor to The Greenwood Encyclopedia of World Popular Cultures, and is author of Austrian Cinema: A History ( 2005 ), the first English language survey of this national cinema.
Hils identified Hanko Döbringer as the author of the manuscript ( p. 106 ), a mistake inherited from the earlier survey by Wierschin ( 1965 ).
The name of the park commemorates Benjamin Banneker, a free African American astronomer and author who in 1791 assisted in the initial survey of the boundaries of the District of Columbia.
On February 3, 2009, the Executive Council of the American Association for Public Opinion Research ( AAPOR ) announced that an 8-month investigation found the author of the 2006 Lancet survey, Dr. Gilbert Burnham, had violated the Association's Code of Professional Ethics & Practices for repeatedly refusing to disclose essential facts about his research.
In an October 30, 2006 BBC article Lancet study author Les Roberts compares the number of violent deaths found in the UNDP survey and in the 2 Lancet surveys through the first year after the invasion ( by April 2004 ):
The first ever opinion poll survey to be undertaken in both Pakistani and Indian-controlled Kashmir, conducted by King's College, London, and the polling organisation IPSOS-MORI, was also Gaddafi's brainchild, having arisen out of discussions he had with British academic Robert Bradnock, the author of the 2010 Chatham House report on the survey.
Tobias Dantzig ( February 19, 1884 – August 9, 1956 ) was a Baltic German Russian American mathematician, the father of George Dantzig, and the author of Number: The Language of Science ( A critical survey written for the cultured non-mathematician ) ( 1930 ) and Aspects of Science ( New York, Macmillan, 1937 ).
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